Monday 19th November 2-3pm


Introductions


The theme of this week will be Understanding Empowerment.

The objectives are:

  • To provide you with different definitions of empowerment;
  • To assist you to begin to understand the processes of empowerment;
  • To stimulate you to share definitions and understandings of empowement.

Resources


Understanding Empowerment
www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empowerment

Provides definitions of empowerment
www.joe.org/joe/1999october/comm1.php



Presentation

On 19th November at 2.00pm Karen Stuart and Lucy Maynard from Brathay Research Hub, Cumbria, will be talking about Understanding Empowerment and about a very interesting action research project that empowered young women. This will provide an exciting discussion starter for this MOOC.
[Update: The slides are also available along side the video so you can see the fine text and images more easily.]



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Task 2

Look at the community empowerment quotations below. These are taken from the WEB. Your task is to find similar quotations. These could be quotations that you agree with or that you disagree with; maybe a bit controversial. Please then post them to the Discussion Forum